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The manager has the guys playing well above the back of their baseball cards. He's empowered TA to infuse Billy fucking Hamilton with the spirit of Hank Aaron. He's got Jake Lamb looking like Jake Wolfpack. There is a counterpoint to every narrative.

Woah, some fire from Stone Poney.

Coming into the season the projections at Fangraphs and B-Pro had the Sox as roughly 40/60 to win the Division over the Twinkies. And that was with Eloy and Robert healthy. The Sox were not clear favorites except perhaps to the most optimistic fans. I think most people expected a dog fight.

I'm not being dense I think it's insane to compare the influence a head coach has in the NFL to the influence a manager has in the MLB. It's a non starter. If you're arguing that a bad manager in all sports prevents a team from reaching its full potential well sure. The thing is that I'm convinced TLR is a bad manager. We can only see so much. If you look at that WAR chart that @caulfield12 has been helpfully keeping you can argue that TLR has done a masterful job keeping every guy on the roster productive and engaged after losing roughly 9 WAR to injuries. Has he made some tactical mistakes? Sure, but every manager makes those.

I think comparing the NFL to MLB is lunacy but I've seen this analogy about a dozen times here on the forum. I'm sorry Bears fans that Cody Parkey did that to you.

DING DING DING.

I don't think there is a manager in history that has managed in the playoffs where the fans don't 2nd guess a decision that ended up "losing" a game. That can be the bar, sure but I'm not sure it's that conclusive either way.

At this point the "TLR hire will derail the season" types have had to walk that back to "well it's suboptimal". I'm not sure any serious person ever accepted the first premise but there are certainly data points for the latter. I do wish we could move on from Yermingate.

I thought it was going to be more of a thing this year across the league. I believe the Mariners are also trying more 6pm local starts. Gets the kids home by 11 instead of midnight for the suburban types and really anybody going to the game at 7 can get off work a little earlier to get there by 6 anyways. It's a good idea imo and I hope more teams keep doing it.

Guys are gassed, it's the dog days early. Just rest up and try and win tmr. That was a great 3/4 in the back to back doubleheaders. Who cares about the loss in a game they tossed out their 7th starter.

Yikes. Drink a beer and go to bed Soxtalk.

This game was lost the minute kopech got hurt luckily they won the first 3/4 in DH back to back is more than you can ask

Good lord

Adam Eaton with one of the biggest hits of the year.

Inspired by their HOF baseball guy

What a huge win!

He gawn!

Nasty sliders !

Nice turn !

Fuck yea!

This is a real bummer

Jesus Christ

Come on focus bummer

What a team

Don’t stop now boys!